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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What effect does Hooks hope "Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom" will have on society?
(a) She hopes it will not create a biased perspective on the black American female situation.
(b) She hopes it will create an unbiased perspective on the black American female situation.
(c) She hopes it will not create a biased perspective on the white American female situation.
(d) She hopes it will create an unbiased perspective on the white American female situation.

2. What did Hooks say women needed to move forward with?
(a) The emotional equivalent of objectives.
(b) The social equivalent of mission statements.
(c) The emotional equivalent of mission statements.
(d) The social equivalent of objectives.

3. Hooks said that many white women are racist in what ways?
(a) Complicity or inactively and unintentionally.
(b) Complicity or actively and intentionally.
(c) Complexity or actively and intentionally.
(d) Complexity or inactively and unintentionally.

4. What did Hooks say is now the reputation of feminist theory?
(a) It is respected.
(b) It is degraded.
(c) It is ignored by men.
(d) It is understood but not taken seriously.

5. During the experiences mentioned in Chapter 8, silence of what issues ended for Hooks?
(a) Matters of discrimination, politics, and age.
(b) Matters of race, class, and gender.
(c) Matters of insecurities, age, and class.
(d) Matters of race, class, and religion.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 12, Hooks wrote about the patriarchal structure within what context?

2. Hooks discussed the limitations of what?

3. According to Hooks, what group of people were the masterminds behind the control system?

4. What did Hooks think is necessary to dismantle?

5. What Latina theorist did Hooks introduce in Chapter 5?

(see the answer key)

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